… Studies that include patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation at the hospital setting as well
as those diagnosed in the community may provide more comprehensive and complete data of …

… significant impact on public health with reduced quality of life and high medical costs. It is …
Health promotion and maintenance takes part largely outside the clinical setting. Significant …

… The total cost of care increased even after adjustment for inflation from €68.4 million in 2006
… recent decades, most studies about the epidemiology and care burden of AF are based on …

… Two more recent studies from the UK, from a primary care setting, reported an increase in
the prevalence of AF in both sexes of all ages at the turn of the century. The annual percentage …

… Setting 50 primary care centres in England, with further … more effective than routine care in
detecting atrial fibrillation in the … We assumed that the baseline prevalence of atrial fibrillation …

… Prevalence of atrial fibrillation reported in hospital-based studies from countries outside …
The present systematic review did not set out to investigate the incidence of bleeding events, or …

… Sociodemographic factors associated with increased AF prevalence after adjustment … ,
16 increasing AF prevalence will require greater investment in health care systems including …

… Rather, there may be a different set of risk factors and comorbidities that warrant … its burden
in patients who do not require inpatient medical care or are cared for by providers who opt not …

… l2 Overall, the reported prevalence of AP in patients older than age 60 is approximately 5% …
Health Study baseline data to (1) describe the prevalence of AF, (2) compare prevalence …

… , its prevalence increasing markedly with age. Atrial fibrillation is strongly associated with …
Retrospective database study in a finnish communal health care setting Direct costs of …